Sentence examples for not luminous from inspiring English sources

So yes, I do think that if the American bishops had been, not "luminous saints" regarding sex abuse, but just more competent and courageous and less self-protective and corrupt, the church they shepherd would enjoy (and deserve) significantly more influence today, both over its own flock and society as a whole.

However, for Williamson, one can know without being in a position to know that one knows, so knowing is not luminous.

Setting aside the fact that the white blueberries would look more distinct (and not luminous), the space in shadow between the pepper, the banana, and the lime would look black, and the specular ("mirror-like") highlights (see, for instance, the red pepper on the left) would look white.

And this hunger -- this need to take all she can harvest inside her, no end to her want -- no, how she keeps alive is not luminous, but strict and necessary, this moving sideways into the dark.

Second-tierers are not as luminous...

The subsequent years have been good, if not as luminous.

It's the brightest star in the sky, but it's not particularly luminous.

Dramatic in their projection, if not as luminous as Ms. Chouinard was, these fine dancers are on view through Sunday.

Type II supernovas are not as luminous as Type Ia and are the final evolutionary stage of stars more massive than about eight solar masses.

It is not as luminous a tennis goal as winning your first U.S. Open, but then Rafael Nadal's to-do list is now remarkably short.

It was not all luminous reverie – the basic tempo for the first movement was surprisingly businesslike and the scherzo had a rather formal squareness to it, and a scattering of tiny memory lapses sometimes spoilt the effect.